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. >> you end up with the boston consulting group. you end up in-- in london. and i don't know how you came about it, but there was some deal that needed consulting in poland. a bus company that under the communists was selling all of these buses to the government. and then all of a sudden th-- that business fell out from under them and you got sent to try and fix this. >> so-- so-- the boston consulting group was hired by the world bank to go and fix a failing bus company in poland. they send me out to this little town with no experience. i don't know anything about buses or business, or anything for that matter. i get to this town-- i-- i'm supposed to be helping them fix the bus company. it's effectively unfixable-- unless the state started buying more buses, which they didn't. but while i was there i discovered something very interesting which was that my-- translator was carrying a newspaper. and in his newspaper-- i noticed a bunch of financial figures on the front page. and so i said, "what's that"? and he said, "ah, these are the very first privatizatio
. >> you end up with the boston consulting group. you end up in-- in london. and i don't know how you came about it, but there was some deal that needed consulting in poland. a bus company that under the communists was selling all of these buses to the government. and then all of a sudden th-- that business fell out from under them and you got sent to try and fix this. >> so-- so-- the boston consulting group was hired by the world bank to go and fix a failing bus company in poland....
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a report by the boston consulting group estimates that the panama canal expansion could lead to 10% of west coast ship traffic shifting to the east in the next five years. ports up and down the eastern seaboard are spending billions to snag a share of that traffic. jaxport's taylor says his harbor needs to be deepened by seven feet, or else. >> we will lose the opportunity to participate in the single biggest growth segment over the next 20 years. >> reporter: taylor says his 40- foot deep channel is already too shallow. it requires some large ships to carry less than a full load to avoid scraping the bottom. and that results in less revenue for the port. >> if we do not deepen this port, i would expect to see the business that we've worked so hard to gain to gradually move north of here, and all those jobs that we've worked to gain will move there as well. >> reporter: the 13-mile dredging project, simulated in this jaxport video, has a big price tag: nearly $700 million. all of it is expected to come from the government. last year, congress passed a $12 billion bill to improve the na
a report by the boston consulting group estimates that the panama canal expansion could lead to 10% of west coast ship traffic shifting to the east in the next five years. ports up and down the eastern seaboard are spending billions to snag a share of that traffic. jaxport's taylor says his harbor needs to be deepened by seven feet, or else. >> we will lose the opportunity to participate in the single biggest growth segment over the next 20 years. >> reporter: taylor says his 40-...
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devices without an extra push from the dealers and insurers with the survey conducted by the boston consulting groupvered a range of new safety features from automatic parking, usually $400 option, for night vision which can run $2,200. the markets started higher but could not hold it and the dow jones industrial average is down 31 and the s&p 500 is slightly lower. >> thank you, jane. >> the next time you shop at kohl's you could be able to get a coffee or snack with experimental cafes in two of the milwaukee stores to get shopers to spend more time in the stores increasing the likelihood we will my more and could be added to all of the 1,100 department stores of kohl's. >> washing dishes is a great way to clear your mind. a study shows the chore can hope you relax. researchers at florida state university put 50 students to the task and found those who took their time focused on the soap smell and did it mindfully increased their inspirational feeling by defy percent and nervousness decreased by 27 percent. >> but the parents newspapered the study. >> -- parents funded the study. >> absolutely. dre
devices without an extra push from the dealers and insurers with the survey conducted by the boston consulting groupvered a range of new safety features from automatic parking, usually $400 option, for night vision which can run $2,200. the markets started higher but could not hold it and the dow jones industrial average is down 31 and the s&p 500 is slightly lower. >> thank you, jane. >> the next time you shop at kohl's you could be able to get a coffee or snack with...
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just last week the boston consulting group released a study that ann will son will talk about, that advancediver systems could reduce 10,000 fatalities and 30% of all crashes in the u.s. we should all share the goal deploying these technologies as soon as possible. how can we not? the modest incentives included for advanced automotive technologies does make sense. car with crash avoidance technologies is safer and cleaner. not a tradeoff. conversion of interests. this harmonization of safety and environmental gains that these technologies offer changes policy paradigm. it calls upon all of us to determine how we can accelerate the integration of these technologies into the fleet, to improve safety, environmental and productivity outcome. so we applaud this committee for introducing the notion of market incentives to save lives. if passed the potential of this legislation to prevent tragedies is very real. impact on greenhouse gas emissions is also equally real. the benefits of new technologies are profound, connectivity and data also introduced new challenges including privacy and cybersecur
just last week the boston consulting group released a study that ann will son will talk about, that advancediver systems could reduce 10,000 fatalities and 30% of all crashes in the u.s. we should all share the goal deploying these technologies as soon as possible. how can we not? the modest incentives included for advanced automotive technologies does make sense. car with crash avoidance technologies is safer and cleaner. not a tradeoff. conversion of interests. this harmonization of safety...